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Not that this will surprise anyone at this point, but some friends said they were struggling to find breaking reports about Japan's earthquake / tsunami because people are reposting mislabeled clips of the 2011 tsunami. Our friend on a trip there is fine but honestly, gently caress that site so hard, even outside the context of the scourge of Nazis being sucked off by the site owner.
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In that case I think that's more of a case of don't use social media for news coverage
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steinrokkan posted:don't use social media 
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The thing about Dune as a cultural phenomenon is it never had a definitive adaption (at least until the most recent film). You had to read the book and grapple with all of it's ideas. Then, Paul was like a pomo-hero that understood he was fake but yet living out a myth. Herbert did a great job of immediately deconstructing him and the monomyth by the second book. So, even the books themselves don't glorify themselves the way something like LOTR or Star Wars does. Lastly, it's space opera but mostly takes place on a desert. It's epic but still grounded in a way that a lot of sci-fi epics aren't.
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I tried reading dune but man is that book boring and written so pretentiously
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CharlestheHammer posted:I tried reading dune but man is that book boring and written so pretentiously  prolly worst book ever written if u ask me. worms don't even get that big
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temple posted:The thing about Dune as a cultural phenomenon is it never had a definitive adaption (at least until the most recent film). You had to read the book and grapple with all of it's ideas. Then, Paul was like a pomo-hero that understood he was fake but yet living out a myth. Herbert did a great job of immediately deconstructing him and the monomyth by the second book. So, even the books themselves don't glorify themselves the way something like LOTR or Star Wars does. Lastly, it's space opera but mostly takes place on a desert. It's epic but still grounded in a way that a lot of sci-fi epics aren't. Dune is about Frank Herbert taking the question of what would happen when a chosen one ordained by prophecy decides to answer the call to action, and responding that it would naturally lead to a universal jihad and the deaths of billions. Thoroughly agree that you should read it up to the end of god emperor of Dune, which is frankly the thematic and storyline closure of the whole thing, and avoid the two books that came after that which were both written when Frank was very very horny indeed.
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Worms Armageddon was big back in the day but they've never quite captured the magic again since then
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Teratrain posted:Worms Armageddon was big back in the day but they've never quite captured the magic again since then You know I never really understood why that was. They just never managed to get it back
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Songbearer posted:You know I never really understood why that was. They just never managed to get it back Ninja rope physics.
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I think gaming just progressed past the dead end that is the formula creating a serviceable worms clone has kinda been done to death and the genre can only get esoteric with ninja rope challenges and poo poo
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Teratrain posted:Worms Armageddon was big back in the day but they've never quite captured the magic again since then Frank Herbert has a lot to learn about writing books.
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Jestery posted:I think gaming just progressed past the dead end that is the formula creating a serviceable worms clone has kinda been done to death and the genre can only get esoteric with ninja rope challenges and poo poo Or real time like liero.
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Jestery posted:I think gaming just progressed past the dead end that is the formula creating a serviceable worms clone has kinda been done to death and the genre can only get esoteric with ninja rope challenges and poo poo 5 times and still no idea. 6 times hasn't done it. I'm going to bed.
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Biplane posted:
The worms grounded the book more than lovely sand ever did
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CharlestheHammer posted:The worms grounded the book more than lovely sand ever did yeah!! sand sucks, its coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere
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Y'all are gonna summon joementum if you keep talking about dune and I don't think he's left the trump thread in like a year or two. Who knows what will happen
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the good parts of dune are the court intrigue while the bad parts are the proto-dragonball fight scenes
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Sir Tonk posted:I don't think he's left the trump thread in like a year or two. What the fu
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TasogareNoKagi posted:IIRC the tweet it was attached to amounted to "Sorry for your loss, BTW we didn't do it" That worked out great though. All that star wars bullshit was either impossible or would have cost $US_GDP to do. It was never gonna happen. You would need as many satellites as Starlink, but bigass ones that needed a whole rocket to lift one or two instead of dozens per launch. But Regan blabbing about it convinced the soviets it was real and helped make START happen.
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ProperCauldron posted:grimes doesn't even sound that stupid tbh. it's similar to how all artsy narcissistic rich kids react to their inherited wealth, power, and freedom You can just say you like her music, dude. It's okay.
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Bogus Adventure posted:No, that will be Donald Trump Whoever wins we lose!
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kazil posted:NERV Episode 1 of the new season and the writers are already pulling in deep references, nice
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Grimes kicking off 2024 by going full Nazi
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Sure is something to declare yourself proud of white culture, an identity that only exists for excluding people they think are lesser. Call yourself proud to be Canadian or French or Scottish or whatever but whiteness as a concept is shorthand for "not a member of a minority race".
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Kale posted:So Elon has to submit that content moderation policy report to the state of California today apparently that he fought super hard but failed to get an injunction on having to do. This ought to be some quality revealing stuff when it almost certainly turns out that they don't even have a content moderation policy. One weird trick to get out of it https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB587 quote:22680. This chapter shall not apply to a social media company that generated less than one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) in gross revenue during the preceding calendar year.  checkmate Californailures
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DemihumanResources posted:One weird trick to get out of it I'm sure he's there between Tim Pool, The Quartering, The Daily Wire and Alex Jones, right?
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ProperCauldron posted:grimes doesn't even sound that stupid tbh. it's similar to how all artsy narcissistic rich kids react to their inherited wealth, power, and freedom I’m willing to meet you in the middle and agree that grimes is not uniquely stupid but she is really stupid though.
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Mudlark posted:well you see everyone from persia is brown because she's racist
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lol if you read Dune instead of Gor (aka Good Dune)
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Bip Roberts posted:lol if you read
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Hope you’re all ready to blaze your glory in 2024. Me I’m gonna buy a cybertvck so I can blaze it in a literal sense
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